cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

[Erik Norgaard]

Jeff Laine wrote:
> The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but whenever
> I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or cyradm) 
> cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes in endless manner, trashing logs with this:
> 
>> tail /var/log/debug.log
> 
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[49269]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49269 exited, status 1
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[49270]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49270 exited, status 1
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[49271]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49271 exited, status 1
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[49272]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49272 exited, status 1
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[49281]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jun  2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49281 exited, status 1
> ...
> 
> ...until I stop the master process.

It seems that when you try to connect with pop3 a child process is 
spawned as it should, but it dies unexpectedly so a new is spawned. 
Could it be something as simple as permissions to access the mailbox files?

Rather than relying on log files, try to launch the master manually with 
the -D flag, it may give you a more verbose output.

> I tried both cyrus-imapd23 and 22 with default configurations but it
> gives the same problem every time.
> 
> I have similar configuration on 6.4-RELEASE without such troubles.

Similar but not the same? Sounds like you should review again your 
config files, also, the versions of cyrus-imapd on your working 
installation, is that the same as the new one? Consider posting your 
configs in next post.


BR, Erik

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